From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JCi0n-00038o-Or for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:58:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D5C68E06A5; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 20:52:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.twi-31o2.org (c-24-6-168-204.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [24.6.168.204]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75DE8E06A5 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 20:52:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.twi-31o2.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40EA017B99DE for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 20:52:59 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at twi-31o2.org Received: from mail.twi-31o2.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gravity.twi-31o2.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id P22dcCdMR9ws for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 20:52:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.100.31] (dsl211-165-131.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [74.211.165.131]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.twi-31o2.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFDAD17B99DB for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 20:52:53 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <47852464.7080405@gentoo.org> References: <20080101103002.083C4652C4@smtp.gentoo.org> <20080105043233.0935d2f8@snowcone> <61307.68.54.223.178.1199541823.squirrel@www.aei-tech.com> <20080106003356.46087fef@snowcone> <20080106233412.5875626f@snowcone> <1199829889.8108.12.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> <20080109021735.42cd3856@snowcone> <1199846287.8108.143.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> <20080109024125.3bfc9479@snowcone> <20080109024724.12bd71fc@snowcone> <1199847569.7893.6.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> <20080109144434.0c16695e@snowcone> <37083.192.168.2.159.1199892973.squirrel@www.aei-tech.com> <20080109154450.59bf52fd@snowcone> <20080109174940.83232kfqqlgpipls@www2.mailstation.de> <20080109170123.7a176c0a@snowcone> <47852464.7080405@gentoo.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-tOJ+lEGE0EOi2heOXgk3" Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:52:37 -0800 Message-Id: <1199911957.8082.62.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 X-Archives-Salt: d065d80c-acb6-45d7-9662-8ab7132852f7 X-Archives-Hash: 7d751e690825eea07a9f398782c22a9b --=-tOJ+lEGE0EOi2heOXgk3 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 20:45 +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >> a) Drop all keywords but those of mips. Leaves mips and, more =20 > >> importantly, its users with a vulnerable and unmaintained set of =20 > >> packages. > >=20 > > ...and break the tree spectacularly, causing huge amounts of pain for > > your fellow developers when they encounter horrible repoman output when > > they try to do anything. >=20 > Can somebody clarify to me why would it cause this? Maybe I just miss=20 > something. He's making the assumption that this sort of thing would be done improperly and would cause other developers issues. I went and created a tiny script[1] to change mips KEYWORDS to ~mips in the tree, and created a patch[2] against the current CVS tree. Were the Council to choose this course of action, the work is mostly done. [1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~wolf31o2/killmips.sh [2] http://dev.gentoo.org/~wolf31o2/mips_to_testing.patch --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer --=-tOJ+lEGE0EOi2heOXgk3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBHhTQVkT4lNIS36YERAphDAJkBvO4nZ1kql2m6EAdFj6Y1FyZvPQCePTbP YN95zPMR4x0OqceIBEHSwrY= =XOQx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-tOJ+lEGE0EOi2heOXgk3-- -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list